For the last few weeks I have walked about my days with a certain bounce to my step. Like a middle-aged woman having a juicy affair with a man far too handsome and way too young, I have had an inner secret. I have known that as of this morning at 11:55, I would be [...]

The thing about parenting a teen is that everything suddenly becomes glaringly real. Which isn’t to say that parenting children of other ages is anything less, but this age seems more critical; there is less time left before the fledglings enter the world beyond parental control, and if I don’t get these next few years [...]

I have never made any secret of the fact that I am not a deeply devoted Catholic. A couple of times per month I wake the kids early on a Sunday morning, poking them out of their comforters and threatening them with an eternity down under if they don’t find some reasonably clean clothing and [...]